The BBC's Nicholas Barber said that the sequel struggled due to the loss of Boseman, but commended the visual effects and Bassett, Wright, and Lupita Nyong'o's acting. The film only features one post-credits scene, with Moore explaining that the creatives "felt the ending was so kind of poetic", that including an additional scene after the credits would have "felt a little disingenuous tonally from what we were doing". We learned about the threat they’ll face in that first trailer, revealing Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and his people, the Atlanteans, moving in on a wounded, grieving nation. As Huerta said at Disney’s D23 expo, Namor and the Atlanteans have much in common with the Wakandans. Meanwhile, Ross is arrested by his ex-wife, CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, for secretly exchanging classified intelligence with the Wakandans.

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Coogler noted Talokan was similar to Wakanda in that it was also an advanced civilization "hiding in plain sight", [15] with Moore stating the two "often find themselves in conflict because they're not dissimilar.

In late July, it was revealed that Kamaru Usman would appear in the film, [36] while Richard Schiff was revealed to be cast in September. She ingests it, gaining superhuman abilities and meeting Killmonger in the Ancestral Plane, who urges her to seek revenge. Kim Murphy felt the teaser focused on who would "take on the mantle" of Black Panther, noting the presence of a mysterious figure at the end of the trailer. Plans for the film changed in August 2020 when Black Panther star and T'Challa actor Chadwick Boseman died from colon cancer, with Marvel choosing not to recast his role.

He also felt M'Baku was trying to figure "out how to move forward" in this new world for Wakanda, much like many in the real world were trying to do in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. He added that Boseman had held together the first film, and now as the director, he was the one trying to keep it going. A release date of May 6, 2022, was announced at D23 along with the placeholder title Black Panther II.

L-R): Alex Livinalli as Attuma and Mabel Cadena as Namora in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The movie does not shy away from his loss, with the kingdom of Wakanda reeling from the death of King T'Challa.